"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength"

-- Sophocles

#Cherish Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.”

Source : Erich Auerbach (1957). “Mimesis”
“The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me”
“People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.”
“A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.”
“I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.”
“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqueÂ . Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner.”
“The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.”
“I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world.”

Source : Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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